What would you do to save Israel?
Would you vote to put a proven enemy of Israel in the White House?
I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s in a Jewish neighborhood in Philadelphia. One game we played was “What would you do?” Usually, this involved silly questions like, “What would you do if a snake was crawling up your leg?” or “What would you do if you fell into a vat of chocolate?”
My grandparents on both sides escaped pogroms in Ukraine and Poland. Aunts and uncles survived the Nazi death camps, the numbers on their arms remaining as proof. My father and uncle fought in World War II. My father taught us about the war, the antisemitism he encountered in the U.S. Army, antisemitism around the world and the glorious miracle of modern-day Israel.
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Beautiful personal stories make this column more meaningful.